A recent poll found that California voters narrowly oppose the initiative to legalize marijuana. A recent study may give ethnic voters even more pause, especially those who plan to cast a vote based on the money they believe taxing marijuana sales will pump into state coffers. The report found that projected revenues are highly uncertain.

The shooting death of Oscar Grant by former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle hit a nerve with Vietnamese Americans in San Jose.

According to Vivian Truonggia, publisher of the weekly Viet Tribune, Vietnamese Americans in San Jose are quite aware of police brutality, given several high-profile cases against members of their own community.